Lily is truly the most amazing, beautiful, kind, caring, quirkly, clever little angel pie who is adored by everyone around her from her biased mommy, daddy and grandparents to her friends and teachers at school. Everyone who comes into contact with her just loves her and I'm honestly not surprised one little bit! She is flourishing at school - I can't believe that we literally have a week left of the term and then she only has one final term to conclude before moving into the next stage of pre-school and into another class! My baby is growing so quickly...
Zac is just too edible! Such a fun loving, cuddly, kissable, gorgeous, handsome, daring and chaotic (at times) little boy! I can't believe that he is already a little boy - where on earth has my baby disappeared to? He is now running around, climbing everything (and getting a few knocks and scratches as a result), exploring everything, starting to talk*, and becoming a real little person.
Life is busy. In addition to my running about with Lily and Zac, I have really got into my gym and getting healthier so for some "Mel Time", I go to the gym 4 times a week with a personal trainer. I have the typical Mother's Guilt for leaving Zac for 2 hours in the mornings, but as soon as I'm done, I come rushing home to be with him and then the 2 of us spend some quality time together. We now do a Mommy & Me Jewish class on a Monday afternoon for 45 minutes and Bright Beginnings on a Thursday morning. I'm thinking about starting swimming lessons with him as well when the weather warms up a little. Lily has school every day of the week and on a Monday while we are at Mommy & Me classes, she goes to Granny for a bit of Granny & Grandpa time which she just loves! Lily also has Playball after school on a Thursday which she enjoys and we are contemplating starting ballet in the new term along with her swimming lessons resuming twice a week now that the swimming school has reopened after the cold winter months.
And life is soon to become slighter busier as I am noticing that Lily is resisting her afternoon nap on a more regular basis. Some times she foregoes it completely and on others, she happily falls asleep. I know she is of an age when a lot of kids do start to go through until bedtime without a nap, but I enjoy my cup of coffee and little break while the kids nap so am hoping it continues for a little longer... Today is a day where she is napping (after a few Mommy calls from her room that went ignored) so I finally get some time to update my blog.
We are off to Knysna on a family holiday in a week's time and I'm really looking forward to getting away. My in-laws are joining us for a few days so I'm looking forward to some quiet time with the husband and perhaps, if we are lucky, some afternoon naps or even early morning lie-ins? Wouldn't that be a spoil! Talking about early mornings, bless him, my little Zac is still an early riser. Anything after 5am is game for him and it is very seldom that my mornings start after 6am... Lily is still such an amazing little sleeper and wakes up on average around 7am, sometimes as late as 7:45am. Wouldn't it be wonderful if Zac got that memo?!
Otherwise my gorgeous, precious little bundles are my absolute pride and joy! Every day is filled with laughs, smiles and heartmelting moments. Of course there are moments when the two of them drive me up the wall or make me want to reach for the wine bottle (and that's saying something as this mommy doesn't drink!), but 99% of the time, the early mornings, defiances, constant mess and toddler tantrums (thankfully we don't experience these all that often) are all worth it as they really do make my life so wonderful!
*List of Zac's words at almost 17 months (well, what I can recall at the top of my head):
- Mommy/Daddy
- Lily
- Bella
- Juice
- Bye bye
- Hand
- Nana (banana)
- Money (yes, he knows to ask for money!)
- Pa pa (Grandpa)
- Ball
- Balloo (balloon)
- Saus (sausage)
- Higher (as in "push me higher on the swing")
- Milk
- Date (loves medjool dates - his mommy's child)
- Eyes
- Egg
- Toas (toast)
- Baba
- Bag (he loves handbags!)
- More
- Up
